Isotherms are a form of contour line to match points with the same temperature and observe rapid changes in temperatures. Fronts are the leading edge of an air mass. Fronts occur along isotherms because of the change in surface temperature, but isotherms are not formed, they are a tool used to analyze surface temperatures.
Tornadoes often, though not always, form along weather fronts, where air masses of differing characteristics collide. The fronts that most commonly produce tornadoes are cold fronts and dry lines.
Tornadoes most often form along a cold front, but do occasionally form along warm fronts.
Tornadoes generally form along fronts. Whether or not the area is coastal has no significant impact on occurrence.
Tornadoes are not a direct product of fronts but rather of thunderstorms. The storms that produce tornadoes most commonly occur along a cold front or dry line, but can be associated with stationary fronts or, less often, warm fronts. Some tornadic storms develop in the absence of any fronts.
They don't. It is the other way around. Cold fronts commonly cause cumulonimbus. Such clouds form when the atmosphere is unstable, meaning that a parcel of air, when given an upward nudge, will continue to rise on its own. A cold front provides that upward nudge to trigger cumulonimbus development.
cold fronts
Tornadoes frequently form along cold fronts and dry lines. Occasionally they may form along warm fronts. Some tornadoes form from thunderstorms not associated with any fronts.
They form along cold fronts.
Tornadoes often, though not always, form along weather fronts, where air masses of differing characteristics collide. The fronts that most commonly produce tornadoes are cold fronts and dry lines.
High pressure is not associated with fronts (or air mass boundaries).
Tornadoes are most often associated with cold fronts, but they also frequently form along dry lines and occasionally along warm fronts. Some tornadoes, such as those spawned by hurricanes, form in the absence of any front.
high pressure systems
Tornadoes most often form along a cold front, but do occasionally form along warm fronts.
Along fronts low pressure systems form. Depending on what type of front it is, the air pressure will drastically increase or decrease. Because the front is the edge of an incoming air mass, precipitation occurs often ahead of the front. Fronts of incoming air masses are subject to prevailing winds, and are influenced in direction. Often, clouds form along fronts, which is why when a front has passed in there has been rain, or snow, or any other form of precipitation.
Thunderstorms and tornadoes most often form along cold fronts but they can form along dry lines and, on rare occasions, warm fronts. Some may form in the absence of any front.
continental arctic and maritime tropical
Tornadoes most often form along cold fronts. However, they can form along stationary front and, on rare occasions, warm fronts. Dry lines are also known to produce tornadic storms.